I`m working with friends on setting up a rootserver. Now I`m working on the testserver to check out, if all work in that kind how we would like it.
But: it is a Pentium MMX. Have you ever installed Gentoo from stage1 on a such a computer? That`s not fun. More waiting than using :-)
But if it is finished, we will have a lot of fun.
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<a href=”/screenshots/liferea.png”><img src=”/img/liferea_thumb.png” alt=“Liferea Screenshot” align=“right”></a>After fixing the last problems with QMail, I`ve started to look around for programs because I like it to test new programms. One very fine but not needed by mine I`ve checked out was MrProject but I do not need such a program. It is very nice and have a lot of features. If you are a project-manager than you should take a look at it ;)
The other program was more useful for mine, it is Liferea, a very nice RSS/RDF-processing-tool. You can organize your feeds in folders and export them in opml.
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Thanks very much to Bernd Wurst for helping with qmail. After a time I understand the logic (DJB-logic!) and had succes.
Now I can read my mail without being worried by long going checks for spam and viruses.
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Yesterday I tried to convert my home-partition on the laptop to an encrypted filesystem. But it failed and all Data were lost. So I set up a new partition (xfs) and encrypt it. And now it works.
You need to have cryptoloop and loopback-support compiled in your kernel, also you need a crypto-algo. I will prefer aes, it is fast and secure.
losetup -e aes-256 /dev/loop0 /dev/partition
mkfs.xfs -f /dev/loop0
losetup -d /dev/loop0
Add this to your /etc/fstab:
/dev/partition /mnt/encrypted xfs defaults,loop=/dev/loop0,encryption=aes-256 0 0
But backup your data before doing it. I dissuade from using aespipe to encrypt the partition on-the-fly. It seems to be unstable.
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Today I got a need more space on my harddisc and I decided to delete Windows because it has never been used. I`m very happy doing this forejump and I think I will never regret it.
The first nice thing is, that I could delete all windows install-packages from my computer. This makes much space, what a fun. At last it will be possible to use a decent filesystem like xfs or ext3. We`ll see.
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Today I have the possibility to tink with old hardware. Such as Pentium II/I, small ramdisks, 2GB harddisks and many other long ago forgotten stuff. We want to create three working dektops and install Mandrake GNU/Linux.
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